*** The Official ATI Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 Reviews, Discussion and Overclocking Thread ***

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ATI Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 Reviews:

• Anandtech - AMD's Radeon HD 6970 & Radeon HD 6950: Paving The Future For AMD

• Bit-Tech - ATI Radeon HD 6970 2GB Review

• eTeknix - HIS Radeon 6950 2GB Graphics Card Review

• Guru3D - Radeon HD 6950 & 6970 review

• Hardware Canucks - AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 Review

• HotHardware - AMD Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 Debut: Enter Cayman

• Legion Hardware - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6970 (2GB)

• Legit Reviews - AMD Radeon HD 6950 & 6970 CrossFire Video Card Reviews

• PC Perspective - AMD Radeon HD 6970 and 6950 Review - The Cayman Architecture Revealed

• TechPowerUp - HIS Radeon HD 6970 2 GB & HIS Radeon HD 6950 2 GB

• TechSpot - AMD Radeon HD 6970 Review

• TheTechReport - AMD's Radeon HD 6950 and 6970 graphics processors, Cayman splashes down

• Vortez - HIS AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB Review

  Right I've been working all night and I'm still not finished with the actual article but I have an analysis of all the game results so have fun:
  
  (Writing a Master's dissertation at the same time as a review is never fun... )

 

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Thankyou
Whoever it was ! LoL
Massive fail by amd

 

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what is the purpose of the dual bios switch
what exactly does it do ?

 

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to you think the voltage tweek on the asus card will make a bit of a diffrence ?

 

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ive decided to leave amds offerings well alone
from what ive seen and read on various review sites, what on earth were amd thinking ?
noise, heat, performance, huge huge let down imo

 

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Did you read the hardocp review?

no i read all the other reviews,
and spoke to a few people who have these cards, and from that decided to say away from amd's 6970 and 6950 cards

 

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I think the 6950s are great cards personally, heat isnt an issue and neither is noise and i run them xfire. When the cards are idling or in desktop you can hardly hear them, when in games running at 95%+ on both cores for prolonged periods you dont even notice the noise, unless your quietly playing chess or something (with Crysis/Metro2033 graphics ). When playing Crysis, Stalker, WoW or MW2 etc, when do ever notice the fan noise anyway over game sounds/music ?

can you honestly say that the noise isnt an issue ?

 

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Wu
try talking the side panel off and see if that makes any difference to the temps

 

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Skillage...

Well I removed the limiter on Afterburner and clocked above 950MHz and when I went to CCC, it had removed the limit as well to accommodate that clock speed. It was totally by accident so I'm not sure if it'll work but it's worth a try.

how exactly ?
little instructions please helios

 

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ah yes tried that the other day, but even if i incleased the core by 1 it would BSOD in afterburner
i take it this will work in ccc tho ?
do you get BSOD via afterburner ?

it changes in afterburner ( the clocks ) but in ccc its the same

 

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would i be xpecting to see 99% gpu usage all of the time on my 2nd 6950 card
just looked in afterburner now and is constantly 99%